Most of us would have read the offshore news piece titled - India has only 0.6% jobs from US firms or India, China get limited offshore US jobs.
This is good news, given the hoopla of all jobs in the americas being sucked away to third world countries including India.
Anyways, thats not my point.
I searched around the web to get my hands on the report on which this news piece is based on. I was not able to. What I found was the following two, by the authors mentioned in the news piece - Raymond Mataloni and Joseph Carson.
Offshore Outsourcing and Multinational Companies (PDF)
J. Steven Landefeld and Raymond Mataloni
WP2004-06
July 16, 2004
and
Manufacturing Payrolls Declining Globally: The Untold Story
By Joseph Carson, Senior Vice President and U.S. Economist
October 10, 2003
See the dates when these were released. One is July 2004 and another is October 2003.
hmmm !! Interesting. The news portals have flashed a one year and two year old report today as news. What were they doing when they were actually released. And why are they putting old reports as latest news. Beats me.
Can anyone please explain. Am I missing something here ? or Is the actual report on which this news is based hidden someplace else ?
6 comments:
OT: informative blog u got here..
regarding this post...am as amazed as u are by the sloppiness of the indian news portals. ..
hey good piece of investigative blogging!!yes,news can be manufactured i guess..or stale data can be circulated in current news items...
i am in the bpo industry...currently between jobs...donno if it is good or bad 4 my job prospects...lol!!
cheers,
It is about time to maintain these portals from Banglore or Chennai.
May be then we might up to date info.
Statistics are [generally] postmortem, hence to know current situation we might have wait till 2006.
:)
Krishna...thanks.
Siddharth..i am sure it will effect the BPO sector.....for the good !
Sriks...guess you would find another blog like this one here, in 2006 too !!
U might want to see "lou dobbs" show in CNN to get the actual head count of jobs being moved to the east and far east .
Arun
Thanks Arun. Will do.
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